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Oct 21, 2023 · Central to appropriation is commodification – the process by which aspects of a culture are turned into an object of sale, distorting and misrepresenting culture. Appropriation reflects the phenomenon of exploitation between cultures of unequal power.
Aug 30, 2021 · Cultural appropriation takes many forms, covers a range of types of action, and has many consequences. It is not a uniform practice and needs to be assessed on a case by case basis but there are common themes and issues.
- Rina Arya
- 30 August 2021
- 2
- 15, Issue10
Nov 6, 2006 · A review of recent books and anthologies surveying and synthesizing the field of intercultural communication identified no references to cultural appropriation or potentially related concepts such as cultural dominance, cultural imperialism, or cultural resistance.
- Richard A. Rogers
- 2006
- What Is Cultural Appropriation?
- Thin Line
- Cultures Are Complex
In the halls of academia, discourse regarding cultural appropriation arose in the late 1970s, sparked by the publication of Edward Said’s famous book “Orientalism.” In this work, Said explored how, in the West, cultural notions of the “orient” invariably aided and abettedthe material and cultural plundering of Asia. As research on the history of We...
There have been myriad cases of cultural appropriation of Indigenous and traditional cultures. However, some cases appear to be more clearly unethical and exploitative of culture than others. The vast plundering of Indigenous cultural artifacts, treasures and traditions that occurred throughout the colonial era provides the clearest historical exam...
The reality is that adjudicating between cultural appreciation and appropriation is never simple, and that is because cultures are vast, complex, historically determined and ever-changing. In the cases of both Kardashian and Jordan, I would argue that had either of them sought to establish true cultural appreciation for the cultures from which they...
Respect, inclusion, consent, and communication are key to ensure that brands are not diminishing something of intrinsic cultural value when adopting elements from another culture." Groups are...
Mar 2, 2022 · Cultural appropriation is ‘retracted’ into the dominant subject to the extent that this appropriation can be upheld in symbolic terms: as a subjective entitlement to marginalised identities that may – or crucially, may not – overlap with objective conditions of ownership.
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Aug 9, 2019 · Social media is full of accusations and counter-accusations of a wrong called ‘cultural appropriation’. Our goal in this article is to sift through these deliberations and identify what cultural appropriation is, what it is not, and what, if anything might be wrong with it.
